rockstaryuzu

All 👀 on Yuzu!

All my money just wants to be in Yuzu's pockets I guess... oh well...

Yes, and I'm just not seeing where that concern is coming from. To my knowledge, other than the pandemic itself leading to limited opportunities at the time, there is no entity that would have or could have forced him to sign a contract for any ice shows. As to your second point, see my previous post re: the nature of sport.

Yes, indeed, enjoy every minute and cheer him on!

Officially following this topic on the forums. Can't wait to hear about the experiences of the satellites who have been able to go.

At this point my only complaint about Yuzu's professional career is that I don't live in Japan, so I can't go watch him skate in person. Everything else is , we're even getting a livestream. I'm delighted

This. Within reason. But he would know better than we do, when he needs to rest.

@Sombreuil Exactly. Plus there's this: Yuzu is now not only an athlete, but a performer, an artist, by profession. As such, he needs to recharge his creative fires from time to time. One of the ways artists do that is by hanging out with other artists. I have no doubt that doing SOI will give him a chance to do just that. Let's not get in the way of that, y'all. Let the man do his thing.

Unless fanyus were the ones running JSF and the ISU, there is literally no way we could have possibly protected him from them. The best we can hope to do is protect him from other overstepping fans and even that's questionable. Instead of feeling guilty, just trust and support him and be there for him if things go sour.

This. We really need to start trusting Yuzu WAY more. He's a man full-grown and running his own show -literally. If he agreed to do SOI, he has his reasons and they're probably much better than any reason we can think of.

I don't know if they can be called a 'victory lap', although I understand why it might look that way. To me, these shows are uniquely Yuzu things. It's something that no one has ever done before and maybe no one will be able to do again. It's Yuzu's own artistic expression, his alone. It can't be compared to others, to what has come before, at all. And while they're definitely a triumph of his skill and creativity, they're not triumphs, per se. If there's anyone he could possibly be compared to, anyone who's had this kindof impact in the past, it's maybe - maybe - Sonja Henie. Has any other skater held the public's interest so intently, or answered it so well? I think only Yuzu.

But the fact remains that it's the same total number of seats being sold, whether you're selling them all at once in a first-come, first-served feeding frenzy, or doling them out in miserly bits with round after round of lottery and getting people's hopes up, then dashing them, over and over again. It all comes down to the ultimate goal of the selling system, which should be the same in either case: to prevent excessive scalping and/or fraudulent ticket sales.

@ImmortalBeloved Thank you for letting us know. RIP @Muffinator. I do remember her talking about her illness here. It's nice to know that she got so much strength and enjoyment from watching Yuzu and being a satellite. My sympathies to her family. Yuzu's performance is as spell-binding as ever. Yet now when I watch this, I can see how much he's raised the bar since then and improved even over this. If it works as easily as the online concerts that I've watched, I'll be very happy.

Well, on the one hand, it's the size of stage Yuzu truly merits, but on the other,

YES!!!!

I keep thinking about what Yuzu must be experiencing right now, practicing, rehearsing, trying to get ready for GIFT... and everytime I do, I break out in goosebumps and my stomach flips over. Then my heartbeat speeds up and I get this 'whoa, so dizzy!' kind of feeling... just from imagining him training for it. I sure hope he's able to stay calm, because as his fan, I most definitely am not! I don't even know if I'll be able ( i.e. will have access to a livestream) to watch the show online and I'm still like this.

Just an FYI to anyone who.mught be interested: Kurt Browning's doingnhis last Stars On Ice tour: https://www.starsonice.ca/news Ticket prices are super-reasonable and there's a bunch of good skaters in the line-up, so if you've ever wanted to visit Canada in spring, here's an excuse to do it!

Wonder no more, of course it did. COVID attacks the cells that line the blood vessels. And it's been proven to cause more damage with repeat infections. Both those things would affect stamina negatively and would damage lung tissue. If Boyang's had two bouts, he needs to be really really bloody careful with his health now, or he won't be able to skate at all.

Boyang looked blue in the face, ffs. Seriously thought he was going to need a stretcher to get off the ice.

Jun and Boyang broke my heart today, but watching Keegan skate so well and Kao do such a great job was healing.